A Step in the Right Direction

mAlice

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Notification of sex offenders in the neighborhood.

City Council unanimously passed a new bill Tuesday night that toughens the laws on where sexual predators and offenders can live and requires the sheriff's office to notify their neighbors.

The proposed ordinance would increase the restrictions on where sexual predators could live from 1,000 feet from a school, day-care center, playground or library to 2,500 feet. The city will also send a letter to residents living within 1,000 feet of a sexual predator when the convicted felon moves into their neighborhood.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/wjxt/20050525/lo_wjxt/2737591
 
Tonio

Tonio

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The law is definitely well-intentioned, but I still say it's a waste of time. We need lifetime incarceration for anyone convicted of a child sex offense.
 
mAlice

mAlice

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Tonio said:
The law is definitely well-intentioned, but I still say it's a waste of time. We need lifetime incarceration for anyone convicted of a child sex offense.
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What we need and what we are capable of doing are two different things.
 
huntr1

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elaine said:
The proposed ordinance would increase the restrictions on where sexual predators could live from 1,000 feet from a school, day-care center, playground or library to 2,500 feet.

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I have a couple questions:
Scenario #1 Scumbag A owns a house 999' from a school, day-care center, playground or library. Scumbag commits child sex offense and goes to jail. While in jail, he keeps possession of house. Eventually he gets out of jail. Can he move back into the house he legally owns, or can the town force him to sell his own property?
Scenario #2 Scumbag A owns a house 1005' from a school, day-care center, playground or library. Scumbag commits child sex offense and goes to jail. While in jail, he keeps possession of house. Eventually he gets out of jail, and he moves back into the house he legally owns. Later, the town changes the laws, as this one is doing, can the town now force him to move out/sell his own property?
Scenario #3 Scumbag A owns a house 2,005' from a school, day-care center, playground or library. Scumbag commits child sex offense and goes to jail. While in jail, he keeps possession of house. Eventually he gets out of jail, and he moves back into the house he legally owns, which is far enough away from all places he is not allowed to be. Later, his neighbor, knowing he's a C.S.O., opens a home based daycare, can the town now force him to move out/sell his own property?
 
vraiblonde

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Chasey_Lane said:
Like the restrictions will actually keep someone from committing a sexual offense.
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Maybe not but it will make them have to work for it a little harder. Think if it were your kid and your neighborhood: Where would you rather some convicted child rapist live, next door to you or 1,000 feet away?

But I agree that 1,000 feet is next to nothing. They should make it a mile - that would effectively preclude predators from living in practically any populated area.

I'm totally against lifetime incarcerations. I don't see the point in it. If someone is such a threat that they must be caged for the rest of their life, why not just execute them?
 
mAlice

mAlice

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huntr1 said:
I have a couple questions:
Scenario #1 Scumbag A owns a house 999' from a school, day-care center, playground or library. Scumbag commits child sex offense and goes to jail. While in jail, he keeps possession of house. Eventually he gets out of jail. Can he move back into the house he legally owns, or can the town force him to sell his own property?
Scenario #2 Scumbag A owns a house 1005' from a school, day-care center, playground or library. Scumbag commits child sex offense and goes to jail. While in jail, he keeps possession of house. Eventually he gets out of jail, and he moves back into the house he legally owns. Later, the town changes the laws, as this one is doing, can the town now force him to move out/sell his own property?
Scenario #3 Scumbag A owns a house 2,005' from a school, day-care center, playground or library. Scumbag commits child sex offense and goes to jail. While in jail, he keeps possession of house. Eventually he gets out of jail, and he moves back into the house he legally owns, which is far enough away from all places he is not allowed to be. Later, his neighbor, knowing he's a C.S.O., opens a home based daycare, can the town now force him to move out/sell his own property?
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This is a pretty far fetched "what if".
 
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vraiblonde said:
. If someone is such a threat that they must be caged for the rest of their life, why not just execute them?
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I think all child molesters should be killed. I've decided people like that have no soul and therefore killing them would be no more than throwing away garbage.
 
vraiblonde

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elaine said:
This is a pretty far fetched "what if".
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Not really. Sex offender is living within the constraints of this law, and the gal next door decides to start a home daycare. That's not far-fetched at all. Although since everyone in the neighborhood will be notified that she lives next door to a child predator, it's unlikely that parents would be rushing to take their kids to her.

Look at our neighborhood. We have a playground that is within 1,000 feet of all the houses here. If one of our neighbors is convicted of a child sex offense, would he have to sell his house and move out of the neighborhood? Assuming, that is, that we didn't burn it down first? :lol:
 
mAlice

mAlice

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vraiblonde said:
Not really. Sex offender is living within the constraints of this law, and the gal next door decides to start a home daycare. That's not far-fetched at all. Although since everyone in the neighborhood will be notified that she lives next door to a child predator, it's unlikely that parents would be rushing to take their kids to her.

Look at our neighborhood. We have a playground that is within 1,000 feet of all the houses here. If one of our neighbors is convicted of a child sex offense, would he have to sell his house and move out of the neighborhood? Assuming, that is, that we didn't burn it down first? :lol:
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My point is, how many scumbag sex offenders own property? Maybe a handful that haven't done time/been caught. Those who have done time will most likely not own property. Those who own property and are eventually caught and convicted will most likely lose their property.
 
mrweb

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vraiblonde said:
Maybe not but it will make them have to work for it a little harder. Think if it were your kid and your neighborhood: Where would you rather some convicted child rapist live, next door to you or 1,000 feet away?

But I agree that 1,000 feet is next to nothing. They should make it a mile - that would effectively preclude predators from living in practically any populated area.

I'm totally against lifetime incarcerations. I don't see the point in it. If someone is such a threat that they must be caged for the rest of their life, why not just execute them?
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I agree that on the surface, 1,000 feet is next to nothing. However, from my experience (former federal investigator for too many years), the distance keeps the offender or potential offender from conducting any sort of surveillance of his potential victim. In most, if not all, child molestation cases I investigated, the offender either knew the victim or had been watching the victim for at least some period of time.

A complete answer to the problem, no, but at least it is an attempt to prevent the potential for another molestation.
 
mAlice

mAlice

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mrweb said:
I agree that on the surface, 1,000 feet is next to nothing. However, from my experience (former federal investigator for too many years), the distance keeps the offender or potential offender from conducting any sort of surveillance of his potential victim. In most, if not all, child molestation cases I investigated, the offender either knew the victim or had been watching the victim for at least some period of time.

A complete answer to the problem, no, but at least it is an attempt to prevent the potential for another molestation.
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So, how many convicted sex offenders out there own property?
 
AC/DC

AC/DC

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Problem solved......they don't cost anything to feed and they don't re-offend

mrweb said:
A complete answer to the problem, no, but at least it is an attempt to prevent the potential for another molestation.
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